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Hi,
When I am using Power Automate Desktop to select a drop down menu, the desktop is always recognizing it as a text box instead. I do not know how to change to a "Select" UI element. Please help.
I can successfully enter text in this box.
You can try to manually edit the selector:
Note: you can also edit the selector as a text so you can customize it to capture your desired element. In order to do so, toggle to "Custom" mode in "Selector builder".
Hi @concjames
u can edit selector using ui explorer
Regards
Ahammad Riyaz
Thx, Ahammad. Let me also try to find the guideline on how to update the UI edit selector using ui explorer. Do you have any good ref for me?
Did you try to update the UI reference with the steps I provided?
You can try to manually edit the selector:Go to the UI elements tabChoose the element you want to edit and double-click it to open the editorIn the example below (Windows > Pane > Combo Box > Edit), just deselect the "fourth level" Note: you can also edit the selector as a text so you can customize it to capture your desired element. In order to do so, toggle to "Custom" mode in "Selector builder".
yes, I did. But it seems power automate cannot recognize it as drop down menu.
You might need to use inspect (a tool from Windows SDK) and check what element you need to refer to. If you can point to a combobox type of object then you'll be able to use the "set drop-down list value" action.
Actually I want to move the red square drop down menu, how it seems it showed as a text box.
Buddy,
This is a web based system. You need to find out the HTML corresponding to the select element. Hit F12 in that page and look for the select element in it. For example:
Also, you'll need to change the action to a web-related one ("Set drop-down list value on web page").
Thank you so much.
It seems I could not find it. Instead, when I selected the drop down menu, it showed the following coding. What it mean?
It is probably inside those div elements. Try opening each one of them until you find the correct element. Example:
When you hover over the HTML element, it will highlight which part of the screen it is referencing to:
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